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4 By Tom Acitelli 8/09/11 6:56pm

Planes Trains & Automobiles

This is fixable.

If I Were Driving This Train: One N Rider’s Platform for Fixing the M.T.A.

The first thing on my platform is that the next M.T.A. chief need not be a train buff. He or she—or me specifically, since I’m hereby throwing my name out there—has to appreciate the economic essentiality of the authority, which moves the equivalent of New Jersey’s population (8.5 million, give or take) every weekday. But this is not a Lionel set; this is dollars and nonsense.

The next chief should know more about transit financing, particularly the warren navigated in simply keeping the four-pronged monster afloat. As it stands now, it’s a ready-made punch line, with the nation’s largest transit system held hostage to a dysfunctional Albany. Read More

By Jeremy B. White 1/26/11 3:45pm

THE PEOPLE SPEAK

Poll: New Yorkers Want to Balance Budget Without Raising Taxes or Cutting Services

A new Quinnipiac University poll confirms that a soaring budget deficit is  the most important issue to most New Yorkers, but also registers resistance to most budget-cutting measures other than freezing wages for state workers.

77% of respondents said New York State has “very serious” budget problems, and 70% were “dissatisfied” or “very dissatisfied” with Read More

By Azi Paybarah 2/02/10 6:51pm

Mario Cuomo’s 14th Grandchild

Mario Cuomo, father of Chris and Andrew, welcomed his latest grandchild into the world yesterday.Chris is the the youngest son of the former governor, and his wife, Christina, had a baby girl, according to the governor's secretary.The governor, according to this secretary, said the baby is healthy, and he's happy the kid doesn't look Read More

By Azi Paybarah 10/28/09 9:27pm

Cuomo for Kim

Mario Cuomo endorsed fellow Democrat Kevin Kim in Bayside, who, if elected, would be the first Korean-American in the City Council. Cuomo referenced what he said was an ethnically motivated attack by unnamed critics, and called it "the worst kind of politics."

Kim has accused opponent Dan Halloran of stoking racial fears.

Also in the video, Read More

By Azi Paybarah 8/19/09 9:08pm

Mario Cuomo for de Blasio

Here’s video of Mario Cuomo endorsing Councilman and former Andrew Cuomo deputy Bill de Blasio for public advocate today “because he’s the best available.”

"This is a good field,” but de Blasio is the best choice, says Cuomo.

By Azi Paybarah 6/23/09 10:47pm

The Goodman Commission

Former state senator Roy Goodman of Manhattan released a statement today saying he’d like the stalemate in the Senate to be broken by a bipartisan commission.

Goodman, one of the last of the Rockefeller Republican types, recommends the following “individuals of the highest caliber” to serve on it:

Former governors George E. Pataki, Mario Cuomo Read More

By Steve Kornacki 5/26/09 3:05am

All the Bloomberg You Can Handle

Politics, the saying goes, is just show business for ugly people. And as in show business, the Charlie Parker rule applies: Always leave them wanting more.

This is not what Michael Bloomberg is doing. Faced with a two-term limit on his mayoralty, he could have opted to ride off into the sunset this Read More